Darin Brooks who won a Daytime Emmy for his role as Max Brady on the day time series “Days of Our Lives” and is currently starring in the Spike TV’s original series “Blue Mountain State” took a moment to talk with Movie Mikes’ Adam Lawton about season two of the hit television show “Blue Mountain State”.
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Adam Lawton: Being back for the second season of “Blue Mountain State” were you allowed any input or direction for your character Alex Moran?
Darin Brooks: This season of shooting went by so fast for me and the other actors who returned to the show. We shot for three months and before we knew it it was over. We had already developed who our characters were, so we didn’t have to start at ground zero for season two. We able to just coming back and have fun.
AL: There are a lot of big sports names attached to this seasons episodes, was there one in particular that you were looking forward to meeting and working with?
DB: This year we have a whole bunch of really fun people. We have Boomer Esiason, Craig Carton, Bill Romanowski, Bill Parcells, Brian Bosworth as well as Chuck Liddell and Denise Richards of course. I was excited to work with everybody.
AL: Was it hard for you going from a more serious role on “Days of Our Lives” 
to a more comedic role on “Blue Mountain State”, where you’re shooting scenes like the “cookie race” from season one?
DB: “Days of Our Lives” was a great training ground for me and I think any actor. The people who work on those shows are some of the hardest working people in the business. On “Days of Our Lives”, we would shoot six episodes in five days with each hour episode being around 80-90 pages per script. On “BMS” we shoot around ten pages at the most a day. I learned a lot of technical aspects of acting that you might not learn in an acting class. Like working with the lights and focusing on where your mics are and memorization skills. It was again a great training ground for me. It was fun but it can be a little dramatic, so I tried to put some comedy into that character. Now I’m kind of doing the opposite because we are shooting less pages. We get to explore and make different choices. With “BMS”, we can get more takes and can choose your best performance and concentrate on your character. Spike kind of let’s us do what we want, which is a lot of fun.
AL: Speaking of “Days of our Lives” you won a Daytime Emmy for your performance on that show, can you tell us a little bit about what that was like for you?
DB: To be honest with you, I was shocked. I know we had submitted all the 
tapes but I didn’t expect to win. I was just going to go to hang out with everybody. I think my Emmy speech is on YouTube and you can see how shocked I was. I think I stood up and mouthed “Oh Fuck” and as soon as I got on stage I said “Oh Shit” and they beeped me and started playing music to get me of stage. I was very surprised.
AL: Do you have any projects coming up that you would like to tell our readers about, maybe season three of “BMS”?
DB: Right now we are not sure if there is going to be a season three but it’s looking good. Everyone has to keep tuning in and do their part to help keep the ratings up, but hopefully we will find out by the end of the year. I have a guess spot on “CSI Miami” coming up. I’m also doing some writing and trying to produce a film, along with a bunch of other stuff. Just getting out there and doing my thing.
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